Boot-blacking chair.



Patented Jun 6'27, I899.

A. c. & L. .1. HOLMES.

300T BLACKING CHAIR.

' (Application filed Mar. 23, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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. UNITED STATES FFICE.

PATENT ANDRIHV C. HOLMES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AND LOUIS J. HOLMES, OF

' NORTH CLARENDON, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOQT-BLACKING CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,851, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed MarohZS, 1899. Serial No. 710,177. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANDREW O; HOLMES,

- tion.

The-purpose of this invention is 'to provide a superior boot-blacking chair of that class in which a chair is provided capable of seating a person as in an ordinary chair and provided with a swinging seat, beneath which is located a foot-rest connected with the seat to slide outward as the seat is raised, so that when a person desires to use the chair during the operation of blacking his boots the seat may be raised, which will project forward the foot-rest, and thus place the device in posi tion for use as a boot-blacking chair.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of our invention, while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention with the seat raised, and Fig. 2 is a sectional View on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 with the rollers ,4 and carrying a stationary back 5 of the usual construction. The seat-box has projecting portions 6 at its upper side, which receive between them the reduced rear edge of the seat proper, 7, which is pivoted to the projections 6 by means of pins 8. by dotted lines in Fig. 1.) This seat proper is adapted to swing down upon the seat'box 3 when the chair is used for seating persons and to be raised up against the back, as shown in the drawings, when the chair is to be used for boot-blacking purposes.

The seat-box 3 is provided with a holder 0, having a spring 10, adapted-to yieldingly support a box of blacking or polish. Fast in the seat-box 3 and extending longitudinally of the chair are two stationary bars 11, which (Indicated best form a support for the foot-rest 12. \Vhen the seat 7 is thrown down upon the box 3, the foot-rest 12 bears upon and is supported by the bars 11. The front end of the foot-rest is formed with a bevel 14, (see Fig. 2,) which is adapted to coactwith a corresponding bevel 15, formed in the front wall of the seat-box at the upper edge thereof. The foot-rest 12 is projected forwardly by means of an anglearm 16, secured to the under side of the seat proper at the rear edge'thereof, and pivoted to'a link 17, in turn pivoted to an arm 18, fast to the under side of the foot-rest. The foot-rest 12 is formed with indentations 19 in its side edges, which are adapted to receive rollers 20, over which may be passed a cloth for polishing boots or shoes. These rollers have their trunnions mounted in the foot-rest at one end and in a transverse bar 21', secured to the other end'of the foot-rest. Secured, respectively, to the side edges of the foot-rest 12, adjacent to the inner end thereof, are downwardlyextending plates 22, having notches therein adapted, respectively, to receive headed pins 23, which pins are fastened one to each bar 11. These plates22 and pins 23 serve to limit the outward movement of the foot-rest in the manner indicated in Fig. '2.

It will thus be seen that we have provided and the foot-rest isheld firmly in its projected position. The person using the device may now pass the polishing-cloth under the roller 20 and polish his shoes in the well-known manner. when the seat is returned to its lower position, the foot-rest is automatically drawn into the box 3.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1'.- The combination of a seat-box, guidebars secured therein, a foot-rest mounted on the guide-bars and adapted to slide partly out of the seat-box, and a seat proper mounted to swing on the seat-box and to close the top thereof, the seat proper having a connection with the foot-rest to slide the seat in connection with the foot-rest.

2. The combination of a seat-box, guidebars fixed therein, pins secured to the guidebars, a sliding foot-rest bearing on the guidebars and adapted to move partly out of the seat-box, and plates secured to the foot-rest and adapted to engage with the pins to limit the outward movement of the foot-rest.

3. The combination of a seat-box having a beveled portion at one side, a foot-rest moun ted in the seat-box and having a beveled end adapted to ride over the beveled portion of the seat-box, and a swinging seat having connection with the foot-rest, to move the same as the seat moves.

4. The combination of a seat-box, a guidebar mounted therein, a sliding foot-rest carried on the guide-bar, means carried by the foot-rest to engage a portion of the guide-bar to limit the outward movement of the.footrest, and a seat proper mounted on the seatbox and having connection with the foot-rest, to move the same.

5. The combination with a support, of a sliding foot-rest mounted thereon, a cover connected with the foot-restto move the same as the cover is raised, and rollers mounted on the foot-rest to carry a polishing-cloth.

- ANDREW C. HOLMES.

LOUIS J. HOLMES.

Witnesses to the signature of Andrew 0. Holmes:

EDWARD Y. HORDER, W. M. WATERMAN.

Witnesses to the signature of Louis J.

Holmes:

E. H. BESHLIN,

K. M. ANDREWS. 

